BusinessWest Editorial
Let’s face it, 2009 certainly wasn’t anything for the business community to write home about.
For many, this was a year to simply hang in and hang on, a time when ‘flat’ translated into ‘pretty darned good.’ For businesses large and small, this was a time best forgotten — and soon.
CivSource – Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and a coalition of university leaders, local politicians and senior technology executives announced the ongoing development and planning of a Green High Performance Computing Center (GHPCC) in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The Center will help bring long-term stability for the city and regional economies throughout Western Massachusetts, the governor said.
HPC Wire - Groundbreaking scheduled for next fall; collaboration with MIT, UMASS, BU, EMC, Cisco & Accenture part of lead-up to Governor’s Economic Summit
HOLYOKE, Mass. Oct. 21 — Governor Deval Patrick today joined University of Massachusetts President Dr. Jack Wilson, Holyoke Mayor Michael Sullivan, leaders from MIT, Boston University, and senior executives from EMC, Cisco, and Accenture to announce initial construction on Holyoke’s High Performance Computing Center (HPCC) is on track to begin next fall, with a target completion date set for late 2011. The public-private collaboration, which recently completed a successful 120-day planning process, will establish Massachusetts as a global leader in the development and application of the next generation of computing technologies.
HOLYOKE – The bright future of the Massachusetts innovation economy was on display on Wednesday, October 21, not in Cambridge, or Boston, but in Holyoke, a historic industrial city in western Massachusetts.
More than 150 people—including residents, local business owners, city officials and students—crowded into the room at the Kittredge Center at Holyoke Community College to witness Governor Deval Patrick announce the go-ahead for the planned construction of the region’s first high performance computing center in a new “innovation district”. Partners in the $100 million undertaking include Cisco, EMC, MIT, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts. Governor Patrick was greeted with a heartfelt, two-minute standing ovation.
